While you’re waiting for your Matadors……..
I thought I would share with you how I coped waiting for my Matadors. It’s a loooong story with a lot to learn. I started this thread back in June 2011 while still waiting, – and oddly enough it became one of the most viewed threads on this forum.
This is how it started:
As it happens, I am the lucky owner of a serious harem of nice guns. And I frequently visit my summerplace on the coast down south in Norway, where weather is the only restriction to my shooting….
Summernights are nice and light with sunset around 22hrs….:
So yesterday I quit Oslo for a few weeks. Fed up with my loooongish waiting for ED and friends to deliver I took 11 members of my harem with me.
Here they are:
As some of you may know, I test and review guns for our Norwegian forum, and this time a comparison of springers is on the agenda….
So go ahead and name them, from left to right…….
And yes. There will be a more in depth test of Lelya 090 who has got new glasses for the occasion…….. 😉
Life is too short to sit put and wait……… 😀
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Kazzz:
Did you chrony the gun ? Is the speed consistent ?
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This was just some training and… I don’t think I will be able to win with this Matador. It’s just not my Eddy and.. 🙁
It doens’t feel like.
I keep shooting almost 1 vertical line. Give me 10 shots and it keeps looking like a vertical line of 1.5inch. 🙁
How is this possible? I tried to shoot the gun very loose, NOT GOOD (but that’s what my Eddy likes)
Tighten up the triggerhand, nope 🙁
Tighten the gun down in the sandbag, nope
Tighten everything down and really don’t let the gun move backwards after the shot seems to do something, but I DON’T get consistent groups..
+1 :thumb:
But just to be on the safe side take some extra weapons in case you can’t beat them with the EDgun :12:
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Well Nik; I am glad that the doctor found something in there, besides an echo! 😆
Give them HELL Kazzz!
Loco, I just remembered one other thing that you could try on the trigger. For a lighter second stage let off, the spring in front of the trigger can be removed. Pretty easy to remove and replace.
Stop foolin around with the ladies and post the trigger pull figures!
Say hi to the ladies! 😀
Grrrrrrrrrrr !!!! 👿 👿 👿
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With you guys only chatting here, I’m off to the shooting range for some 110 yards groups with the new trigger adjustment.
Say hi to the ladies! 😀
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You need your head checked my friend Cooljonik …. 😉
Dear Zoco,
Thank you for your friendly advice 8-). You will be surprised to hear it but the specialist who checked my head found in there something that might be of interest to you, and consequently perhaps to all of us 💡 He asserted that my suggestion to consider selling your Matadors was backed by a very substantial and logical reasoning. Furthermore, he established beyond doubt that if you decide to go through with the sale you stand to gain the following:
A) Make your GF happier by using the money from the sale for some additional Christmas presents for her.
B) Have a good reason to place your next order with Ed for a couple of the upcoming and much improved version R3.5 Matadors.
C) Get the chance to produce Part II of that mega successful Nordic Saga/Soap Opera ‘WHILE WAITING FOR MY MATADORS’ which received unsurpassed world wide acclaim and crowned you with everlasting airgun fame.
Your friend forever CooljoNik 😆
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Come and say high to me! We’re just an Eurostar away!!
Oh, wish I could….. ! 😀
But I am there for 3 days only, – flying back to Oslo on the 16th. Then repack and off for mainland Spain (Alicante) for X-mas with my daughter..
Some other time Kazzz, – some other time……. 😀
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You need your head checked my friend Cooljonik …. 😉
That said, apparently there are a couple of Crickets somewhere in pipeline, – so may be I’ll have to…… 🙄
Unfortunately there are very few potential buyers though…….. 😉
Friend Nik :party:
😯 😯 😯
erm…
Thanks….. 😀
But we’re not there quite yet, -are we…??? 😯
Cheers… 😀
PS: @Powderburner, – will in due course. Just borrowed a sight so in a few days hopefully, – may be in a separate thread…. 😉
Zoco, London???
Come and say high to me! We’re just an Eurostar away!!
Wow , i just read thru the whole thread, and wooooow, sure am glad you received the guns, i haven’t looked at the thread since the first page i think until last night,and i am glad i haven’t because the suspense would have been murder, i dont think i culd have taken paying out that much and having to Waite over a year, i have wanted a ed gun since mamcrakin and old goat started with this stuff like in 1999 i think, so i dont look at the ed gun stuff, well , i try not to look at the edgun stuff 😉
looking forward to seeing some groups with that pistle, havent seen any info , at all on it.
Even worse, – I am supposed to fly with her to London for X-mas shopping
on the 12th……. 🙄
Just a thought: If your GF’s taste for X-mas presents turns out to be too extravagant you may consider selling the 2 Matadors to cover the deficit 😆
Merry Christmas, Trygve!
Friend Nik :party:
Thread.
In the history of the internet.
Thank You.
Well…….. 😳 😳 😳
Most likely not, – but still:
Thank you mate !!! 😀
And thanks to all those brilliant minds that have made this thread…..
If nothing else, this thread may serve as a wonderful example of how the internet brings people of different cultures, nationalities and backgrounds together in a fun and friendly atmosphere….
And it proves beyond discussion that guys are guys regardless of where they are, their color or their ethnic background…… 😀
And it ain’t over yet…… 😉
I brought in some new chronies today, – and I have aslo measured trigger pull weight for various settings. And the two Matadors have been compared stringwise…..
My little problem now is my GF is flying in from London tomorrow, – and this house needs a serious cleaning……. 😯
Even worse, – I am supposed to fly with her to London for X-mas shopping
on the 12th……. 🙄
So if I’m not responding in the coming few days, – its because………. ??? 😉
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(f….!, – where’s that broom now !!! 😥 )
Best.
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In the history of the internet.
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Kazz, coule be a couple of things. A bad scope reticle with elevation issues. Or your rest is making the muzzle tip up and down when it recoils slightly.
I had the same issue on my 223 target rifle until I made some nice bag sliders. If you watch a pb bench rest shooter line up the shot they will slide the rifle back and forth to be sure the poi doesn’t change as the rifle slides on the bags.
The bench rest kit for the USFT is a part that fits to the end of the butt stock and it is mounted parallel to the bore of the rifle. Even though the recoil of an airgun is next to nothing I think it still makes a difference.
I changed the way my target rifle slid in the bags and my groups improved significantly. My vertical stringing issues went away like magic since my muzzle used to rise when the rifle slid back on the bags.